[IO Islamic 119] شاهنامه

• Shâhnâma.
• This manuscript is now IO Islamic 881 in the India Office collections.
• [metadata: Hermann Ethé, Catalogue of Persian Manuscripts in the Library of the India Office, 2 vols. (Oxford: India Office, 1903): volume 1, number 119 here with notations and hyperlinks].

881

An incomplete copy of the same.

This copy breaks off in the story of Khusrau Parwîz;

The last verse:

پراگنده شد لشكر شهريار

سيه گشت روز و تبه گشت كار

Corresponds to fol. 576^b, first line, in No. 118 (861 in this Cat.). Many small injuries throughout.

No. 119, ff. 554, 4 coll., each ll. 25; Nasta’lîḳ; a vignette on fol. 1^a; ff. 1^b and 2^a luxuriously illuminated; at the beginning and end of the MS. two large pictures; size, 13^3/4 in. by 8^1/2 in.